Biography & True Stories
March 2021
Glorious Birds: A Celebratory Homage to Harold and Maude
by Heidi Greco
Heidi Greco’s Glorious Birds takes us back half a century to when this blackly comic, one-of-a-kind film was released. The 1971 film would eventually go on to build a massive cult following of outsiders, misfits, disaffected youth, and even senior citizens who grew up on the margins, stifled by a world built on the establishments and conventions of a dominant culture. Fifty years later, many of the themes explored within the film are entirely prescient: love, self-acceptance, antiwar, and environmental stewardship.
